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      09-03-2009
You lost me with the "8xAA/16xAF"

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After a quick search - I think I understand now
This is what I read about - ATI Super AA vs. NVIDIA SLI Anti-Aliasing

After reading this article I am not sure why anything larger than 4xAA would be needed on a small monitor. I can deffinantly see why 8xAA would be needed on a large TV.

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Found this - Official Upscaling Thread or let's make old games look better

After reading this article I can see the importance of greater up-scaling on a smaller monitor. I guess in a way it would depend on the original games resolution and how much you are up-scaling.
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      09-04-2009
I get what AA is, but what's AF?
 
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      09-04-2009
I was wondering that myself and found this - Anisotropic Filtering
 
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      09-04-2009
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Sorry, I'm no tech genius, on games I normal turn all settings to the max, put resolution to the biggest number and go. If it is slow, I turn them down a bit.
Win7 says my monitors native resolution is 1440x900, so that is what I aim for in resolution. If the game runs badly, I'll tone down the res a bit.
I went on dabs and novatech, and this looks good, especially because you can over clock it, or would you not recommend over clocking?

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p.../NOV-4890.html
The ATI Radeon 4890 is a nice card Sycthus and you would not need to OC it to play even Crysis, many gamers today OC when there is no need to.
 
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      09-04-2009
The 4890 is a brilliant card. Can't go wrong, there.
 
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Does anyone know a cheap English place to get it? Or can you only buy it from Novatech?
 
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The link you gave (Novatech) is a good price, I have had stuff from them with no problems. or > http://www.dabs.com/products/xfx-ati...-xxx-62HF.html
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      09-04-2009
dabs was the other place I was considering. The two are slightly different, but the review for the dabs one says I need two power supply cables. I think I have them, but my current card didn't need any wires in it. So is he saying I need to plug some stuff into it?

edit: And can I use an AMD GPU on a nVidia/MSI motherboard?
 
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As long as your MOBO has PCI-Express it will slot in (nVidia or ATI), many mid to high end Graphics Cards today need a power supply and if your PSU does not have the right connection cable converters can be bought quite cheep (if you post your PSU I or other members can I'm sure may post back exactly what you need to install the Card).
 
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many mid to high end Graphics Cards today need a power supply.
More proof that I have a low end graphics card!

I will check out my PSU after I have turned my comp off and see what I can find!
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